Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

It is estimated that 750,000 people are living with dementia in the UK and 500,000 partners, family members and friends are involved in caring for ...

Sharing and evaluating a series of relationship-centred approaches to dementia care, this book enables practitioners to have hands-on involvement i...

At the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potentia...

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such va...

There has been a resurgent interest in relationship-based practice and the Care Act 2014 recognises the significance of effective working relations...

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the intravenous administration of nutrients carried out in the patient's home. This book analyses current practi...

In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. ...

This practical, interdisciplinary text draws from empirically grounded scholarship, survivor-centered practices, and an ecological perspective to h...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become an integral part of social and working lives. Within social work ICTs play a vital ro...

Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child an...

Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They nee...

Foster children are more likely than other children to be involved in risky activities online due to backgrounds of neglect and abuse, an absence o...